Leyden township, Cook County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 28 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Leyden township: | 28.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
65% of Leyden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 88% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 60186
- Northeast: 805
- Midwest: 3037
- South: 2243
- West: 865
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $135,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Leyden township, Illinois:
- 599 people in nursing homes
- 70 people in religious group quarters
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,189
- One, attached: 577
- Two: 1,811
- 3 or 4: 2,600
- 5 to 9: 4,665
- 10 to 19: 2,904
- 20 to 49: 1,588
- 50 or more: 1,240
- Mobile homes: 54
Median worth of mobile homes: $82,500
Housing units in Leyden township with a mortgage: 12,162 (1,212 second mortgage, 1,612 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 6,676
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Leyden township:
- Polish (19.7%)
- Italian (18.9%)
- German (9.6%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- United States or American (2.6%)
- English (1.7%)
- Greek (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Poland (29%)
- Italy (8%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Other Eastern Europe (3%)
- India (3%)
- Greece (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 34,392 (78%)
- Carpooled: 5,169 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 847 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 53 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 506 (1%)
- Railroad: 1,086 (2%)
- Taxi: 42 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 17 (0%)
- Bicycle: 104 (0%)
- Walked: 1,219 (3%)
- Other means: 224 (1%)
- Worked at home: 592 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Leyden township, Illinois:
- 599 people in nursing homes
- 70 people in religious group quarters
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
58.9% of residents of Leyden township speak English at home.
19.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
19.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (74% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 94,025- In family households: 81,472 (17,845 male householders, 6,116 female householders)
18,552 spouses, 30,534 children (29,173 natural, 460 adopted, 901 stepchildren), 1,704 grandchildren, 1,541 brothers or sisters, 1,316 parents, 2,419 other relatives, 1,445 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,553 (5,022 male householders (4,070 living alone)), 5,717 female householders (5,104 living alone)), 1,814 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 689 (597 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 8,397 2-persons, 5,650 3-persons, 5,108 4-persons, 2,846 5-persons, 1,293 6-persons, 667 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,174 1-person, 1,351 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
16,818 married couples with children.
3,665 single-parent households (898 men, 2,767 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,560
| Here: | 15.3% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 830
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,269
| Here: | 27.6% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |